Legal troubles mounted for the producers of "Midnight Rider" this week as railroad company CSX Transportation sued the filmmakers, claiming that they illegally filmed on its tracks where a train collided with the crew earlier this year.

HARTFORD — A Superior Court jury in Hartford has awarded $7.29 million in damages to the family of a state Department of Transportation supervisor who was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Route 8 in March 2012.
Daniel R. DiNardi, 41, of...

A dozen people reported serious health problems or injuries on Disney World rides during the third quarter of 2014, while two such incidents were reported at Universal Orlando and one at SeaWorld.
Universal reported no major incidents at its newest...

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Carmelo Licitra was a physician treating a man ravaged by HIV.
Then a coughing jag gripped the patient, drawing blood. Some of it splashed in Licitra's eyes.
In an instant, the doctor swapped his white coat for...

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The recent cluster of three high school football deaths brought to the forefront just how unsafe the game is. While the rate of fatal injuries is very low, football remains a dangerous activity. The statistics for the NFL are familiar and striking. In 2013, among 1,696 players there were 225 diagnosed concussions. From 2004-2009, there were over 16,000 recorded injuries, 21 percent of which were considered major. Most striking is the recent prediction by the NFL itself that that it expects one-third of...

Oak View Elementary School parent Jackie Talamantes hugged her little girl tightly in the school parking lot Thursday morning before the first-grader boarded a bus for the first time.
Talamantes shouted for her daughter, Mia, to remember that she had put a piece of paper with her phone number and address in the girl's backpack.
Talamantes said she did it "just in case something goes wrong." After all, she said, it was Mia's first day taking the bus to an elementary school 10 miles from her...

Chesapeake-based Dollar Tree Stores Inc. has been fined more than $800,000 by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for repeated safety violations in the past five months, according to a U.S. Department of Labor news release.
Since 2009, OSHA claims it has received complaints from Dollar Tree employees in 26 states and has cited the national discount retailer for 234 safety violations. Often, OSHA records show, the Fortune 500 company continues to have the same problems.
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Students from three Huntington Beach elementary campuses who have been unable to attend school for days because of the risk of exposure to asbestos will return to class Thursday morning, but in many cases those classes will be in other districts.
The decision to bus the students to other schools was announced at a news conference Tuesday afternoon at the offices of the Ocean View School District in Huntington Beach.
More than 1,300 students from Oak View and Hope View elementary schools will go to...

Hundreds of Huntington Beach students may not be returning to classes Wednesday, as the Ocean View School District had initially planned.
The district had said that 300 students from Lake View Elementary School – one of three campuses closed indefinitely because of asbestos concerns – would temporarily attend the district's Westmont and Harbour View schools starting Wednesday. The district is working to completely remove asbestos that is present above ceiling tiles at Lake View.
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VERNON — A Manchester builder renovating the polluted site of a defunct textile mill has been cited by federal officials for 25 "serious" violations of workplace safety and health standards.
Rockville Construction LLC, 61 Tolland Turnpike, Manchester, faces $107,100 in fines for inadequate safeguards against lead exposure, respirator deficiencies, falls, and electrical hazards during renovations at Hockanum Mill, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health...